I have installed JDK 1.4.06 and Tomcat 5.0.28 on Win2000 machine. I
have set JAVA_HOME to java home directory and not bin directory.
I am able to run Tomcat default index. jsp page and examples of JSP and
servelet provided with the Tomcat.

I'm wondering, can I make desktop shortchut
through Java code.
Thanks.
Warm Regards

I am developing an LDAP client that will allow a user to search and
browse a directory server.  I currently have the main window spawn a
settings dialog that stores user auth. credentials into a class I
created to hold that type of data.  I then am attempting to pass an

I'm currently working on a Chat Program, and i'm having problems with
my sockets.  Alltough I'm sure I use the right port and IP adress, the
socket still can't connect.
What could cause this problem?

I'm shopping around for a good visual Java environment and need some advice
on what is a good choice. I have been programming Java (from scratch) for
the past 8 years but I might have some projects coming up that could benefit
from a visual editor. Applets and/or applications. ...

I have a batch program that generates several flat files. The files being
generated are of various types, including HTML, ASCII, CSS, and PDF.
At the moment, each distinct file is generated in its own separate method.
The main of the class simply executes each method in turn. The ...

You would think that with all the bad press Windows gets from whiners
and people who think that Linux is superior, people would be leary of
Microsoft by now.  However, it is #7 on Fortune's list of most trusted
brand names.  This makes it the most trusted software vendor in

hi..
i was wondering if i should be using struts alone with it's html (told
that it's no longer in producion) JSF (focuses only on view) or combine
the two (only nightly builds)

hi..
i'm just getting into html names space of struts ui, and i think i
understand why is everyone talking about page level events vs request
events.

Hey i need to run a tcl server from java, its a very simple server that
i jsut need to run, i dotn need to do anything with it dont need to
input or output anything from it, just want the stupid tign to open lol
Heres what im currently doing but nothing is happening when i run the

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I just came across a class that uses serialization to clone itself.
Its a class that is a base class for about 30 different classes that
represent items stored in a relational database.  I understand that the
programmer did this so they could clone any object inherting from the

Here is a bug, that all versions of SUN java 1-5-0 compilers seem to have.
The bug is, that a class, extending a base class, cannot be compiled
(because of a (wrong) error message), except you compile
both base class and sub class together.

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My understanding is that on some platforms like AIX they can change
java from being an interpreter to running binaries through some
compiler?
Not sure of the details but is it possible to compile my java program